Former Slashdot editor, games programmer and consultant Chris DiBona talks about his new work at Google in a brief interview over at Linux Format.

In four years’ time, will Google be a 100% open source company?

CD: Oh, no. There’s no way. There are some things we can’t open source, because they’re either licensed and not open to people, or it would be wasteful to open source it. For instance, there is some of our software that unless you have a data centre with, say, more than a hundred computers, you can’t really use it. Or if you don’t have a data centre that’s exactly like ours in the way that we’ve architected it, you end up spending the whole time just relaying the software, and there’s no real point to it.

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Former Slashdot editor, games programmer and consultant Chris DiBona talks about his new work at Google in a brief interview over at Linux Format.

In four years' time, will Google be a 100% open source company?

CD: Oh, no. There's no way. There are some things we can't open source, because they're either licensed and not open to people, or it would be wasteful to open source it. For instance, there is some of our software that unless you have a data centre with, say, more than a hundred computers, you can't really use it. Or if you don't have a data centre that's exactly like ours in the way that we've architected it, you end up spending the whole time just relaying the software, and there's no real point to it.

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